Early Holocene paleosols at the southwestern Ramlat As-Sab'atayn desert margin: New climate proxies for southern Arabia

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 365-366, Issue , 2012, Pages 154-165

  Pietsch, Dana ^a   Kühn, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Geochemistry; Holocene paleosols; ITCZ; Palaeoprecipitation; Soil formation; Yemen

Indexed keywords

ACIDITY; AMPLITUDE; CARBON ISOTOPE; DESERT; GEOCHEMISTRY; HOLOCENE; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOSOL; PEDOGENESIS; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY);

ARABIAN PENINSULA; YEMEN;

MOLLUSCA;

EID: 84868512033     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2012.09.023     Document Type: Article

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